Six Months in The Caribbean
Blue Sky's Voyage
George & Michael
Sun 10 Jun 2007 15:21
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Dear Friends
"15:51.98N 61:31.14W"
Well the first six months in the Caribbean
has been quite good...
We're back in Les Saintes in our favourite
anchorages, off to the marina in Point a Pitre tomorrow to prepare for Ian and
Alan's arrival on Friday.
This weekend we have been entertained again
with racing...
 Yesterday the highlights were watching a
catamaran getting stuck on the racing mark (great yellow balloon of a thing) and
struggling to get it out from between the hulls, tee hee! Also watching SUPERU,
a different boat we hasten to add - couldn't have been more than 25 feet long -
belting along at more than 20 knots. We couldn't decide what was stopping it
from turning over!
Here it is just heading down to the start
line this morning.
 We are again at a comfortable distance from
the upwind mark, so the fleet comes towards us hard on the wind, gets into all
sorts of trouble going round the mark together and then the spinnakers flash up
in a few moments as they turn back downwind.
This morning the boats all got rather close
and there seemed to be rather a lot of urgent discussion (ie. frantic yelling)
and we think we heard a few clunks as contact was made.
 somewhere in the middle of this lot, there
really is a racing mark.
Not much else to report, here is a rare pic
of the skipper (notoriously camera-shy) keeping a watchful eye on Blue Sky
whilst climbing up to the fort on Ilet a Cabrit in the evening
light.
 Best Wishes
George & Michael
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